Shree Chipling Revisited
/It has been more than two and a half years since we first visited Shree Chipling and Shree Salme Primary schools in Thakani, Sindupalchok. The new government school is not yet complete, but by the three year mark, these children should be able to return to a classroom.
Shree Chipling Primary School in Sindupalchok, one week after the earthquake of May 12 2015.
The new school is made from brick and concrete, steel roof and beams and smooth concrete floors.
Rubble from the old school fills the yard outside the new school building. A drain pipe rises above the ground where the new toilet will be.
The new school building inside, nearing completion.
A view of the village with the new school house perched on the side of the hill.
During this donation we saw many children with the school bags we had brought on May 19, 2015. Well worn and cherished with their colourful pictures faded, the children still had their books and pencils inside.
The new Moving Mountain School Bag and the original, now almost 3 years old.
Donation day - May 19, 2015 - Shree Chipling, Sindupalchok.
Donation day - Shree Chipling, Sindupalchok, January 21, 2018
A little way down the mountain was another school, Salme Primary school in Thakani, where we had donated to a community where every single house in the village had collapsed. The children had come to receive their bags in bare feet with only the clothes on their backs left from the disaster.
The village of Thakani, Sindupalchok 5 days after the earthquake of May 12, 2015.
Children of Thakani, Sindupalchok, stand in the rubble of their home, May 19, 2015.
Shree Salme Primary school after the earthquake of May 12, 2015.
Group photo in the rubble of the collapsed school with the surviving children from the village, teachers, principal, parents and Rewati Gurung - founder of Moving Mountain School Bag and Menka Batachan volunteering.
Group shot inside the new school, 30 months after the earthquakes in 2015 with teachers, community members, Rewati Gurung and volunteers from Unatti foundation who supported during the packing and donation day.
School children at their desks inside the new school building Shree Salme, Thakani.
Some of the children from Shree Salme primary school during donation day in 2015. The boy on the right poses with Rewati Gurung in the photo below.
